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Wherever Forss sets up his fine black-and-white prints, he creates a little museum without walls; such is his skill behind the lens and his technical proficiency in the darkroom. The police, however, see Forss and his fellow vendors as nuisances. Leaseholding, rent-paying merchants think still less of them. So, even with a license, Forss cannot go about his business entirely unhassled. Because of congestion, some busy corners are forbidden territory. There are other restrictions. "You're not supposed to stay in one place more than two hours," he says, adding that the police grow unhappy...
...family." At 18, he struck out on his own, taking jobs as a house painter, Linotype operator, busboy and messenger. He began carrying a camera with him, learning about it and the city at the same time: "You get ideas while you're walking around." He taught himself darkroom techniques and started showing the results to people he met on his rounds. Some offered to buy. Five years ago, Forss decided to sell full time...
...behest of Tsar Nicholas II. Having fascinated the Romanovs with a color slide show at the court at Tsarskoe Selo, Prokudin-Gorskii gained an imperial commission to record the art and people of the Russian Empire. He traveled widely in a private railroad car outfitted with a darkroom. His pictures are no Walker Evans tour of Russia's huge brute poverty. In the warmly glowing but primitive colors of his still rudimentary art form, Prokudin-Gorskii celebrated the village life and gilded ecclesiastical magnificence of a Mother Russia that Tsar Nicholas imagined would remain unchanged forever...
...almost any Ivy-league school, possibly almost any college. The year is 1973, but the subject matter of this film is as important as it ever was. If we ignore hair length and style of clothing, we could easily believe that this 53 minutes of celluloid just left the darkroom today after being shot yesterday...
...father and son enjoyed a number of activities together, such as fishing and attendance at athletic contests. Both followed the Cubs and the Bears closely. The father encouraged his son's interest in animals--especially dogs--and helped him with photography by building him a darkroom. Reminiscing about her husband and oldest son, Agnes Thompson listed their similarities: "outgoing, friendly, kind and generous...